Facebook's got Moves

Facebook is still on the acquisition warpath; it has just
snapped up activity tracking app Moves.

Moves is created by a Finnish company called ProtoGo and
monitors physical activity without the need for any wearable
sensor. It sits in the background of your mobile phone and learns
your daily routine using the device's sensors and location to track
whether you are walking, cycling or running. The team is made up of
the founders of Habbo and ex-Nokia employees.

Moves only launched in January 2013 and by the end of last year
was tracking more than two billion steps per day. It has been
downloaded four million times.

In a blog post,
the ProtoGo team said it was "delighted" that Facebook had acquired
the company. "We're joining Facebook's talented team to work on
building and improving their products and services with a shared
mission of supporting simple, efficient tools for more than a
billion people."

The team reassures users that the "Moves experience will
continue to operate as a standalone app, and there are no plans to
change that or commingle data with Facebook".